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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-26

RT @Twistedlilkitty: Freaky eaters: Diet coke and white bread. They should fill her full of mentos…. -|- I’d pay to watch the result! # @DizzyD242 Here you go… http://bit.ly/16I65h in reply to DizzyD242 # @ArmandoIannucci Yet a Scottish cloakroom attendant, Angus McCoatup (similar vintage) wouldn’t garner a single column inch. Why’s that then? in [...]

Blowing His Own Trumpet…

This one tickled me;

OAP scares off burglars with bugle blast

A pair of alleged burglars were sent running by a pensioner who scared them off with a blast on his homemade bugle.

78-year-old Alex Wade lives alone and said that he keeps the instrument by his bed for “emergencies”. Wade, of Coventry, claimed that [...]

Führer Daubs for Sale…

Seems several pieces of ‘art’ are due to be auctioned that are, allegedly, by one Adolf Hitler.

Self portrait by Hitler to go on sale

AH by Heartfield

A self portrait is among a collection of paintings which are attributed to Adolf Hitler and will go under the hammer in the UK next month.The [...]

‘Jack Frost’ in Hot Water

Yet more nonsense;

Jason ‘sorry’ for Pakistani joke

Actor Sir David Jason has apologised for a joke he made about Pakistanis on Tuesday morning on national radio.

Speaking on Christian O’Connell’s Absolute Radio show the day after the joke was broadcast, the star said it was a “silly little play on words”.

He added: “It [...]

Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe – S1E1

YES!

Charlie Brooker is worth the licence fee on his own. Since the end of CB’s Screenwipe I’ve had to rely on my own meandering observations to entertain me. And, since the BBC’s announcement that presenters and on-screen personalities will not be allowed to produce their own shows in future cast a dark shadow of [...]

Twouble with Twitter

That’s certainly one take on Twitter, and there are a huge number of folk on there that are just like that comic portrayal.

Naturally, I don’t include myself in that group.